8. Find the meaning: Learn how to make a difference in your own life and other PSCers' lives if you so choose

9. To be with people of your own age who like to, want to, or have to . . .

10. Put an actual face to all your FB friends

11. To allow your parents or caretakers to talk with other people similarly situated so they don't keep asking you the same questions or saying "I don't understand" or look at you like you're nutso or seriously disturbed when you say you'd cut your own feet off to stop the itch?

12. To see who can make up the most memorable and useful phrases using only the letters "PSC"

13. To better realize that having PSC does not mean that your life is over, but instead offers you the opportunity to explore alternative choices

Lumena Pharmaceuticals, Intercept Pharmaceuticals and Gilead Sciences, three pharmaceutical companies that are conducting or are about to start conducting clinical trials for treatments for PSC, are sponsors of our conference in Denver this year. Having three potential treatments being discussed for PSC is a first in the history of PSC Partners! This will be a good way to celebrate our tenth anniversary.

The body that selects the research funded by PSC Partners is the Scientific/Medical Advisory Committee (SMAC), a body composed of leading PSC physicians and scientists from all over the world. Actively engaged in the decision-making process, these PSC scholars evaluate all grant applications submitted to PSC Partners and make recommendations to the Board of Directors. PSC Partners has awarded more than 30 grants totaling $1,236,706 to prominent PSC researchers in important PSC centers internationally.